Personal Good News of 2014

In no particular order:

• Applied for Australian citizenship. Hoping to make the pledge in a few months.
• Kids and wife doing well or very well at their schools.
• Brother going amicably through a difficult process of separation with his wife.
• Mama starting to live normally with a pacemaker.
• In-laws in good health.
• Family trips to Japan and Melbourne.
• My project at work coming closer to a successful completion.
• Moved to a new, much better rental townhouse - no motorway noise, nice new kitchen and bathrooms, enough bedrooms for all of us.
• Maintaining contact with friends worldwide.
• Started training Krav Maga and trying not to lose hard earned Karate skills.
• Our community initiative - The Polish Language School in Gold Coast completed its second year of operation. A big thank you to all parents and the Helensvale Library for hosting us.
• Following the example of my American Australian colleague from work, I asked this year my closest family to donate to charities in lieu of Christmas presents for me.
• Donated at work to Fred Hollows Foundation - our boss matched our donations!
• Donated to Wikipedia and UNICEF.
• Learned about an idea that I would like to copy someday: http://www.books4pngkids.org/